Autism Acceptance Month

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Awareness could be aware and be ok with it or it could mean be aware of a problem

Acceptance is not a perfect term either because most people do not accept everything about oneself or others.

IMHO Autism acceptance is a lot less flawed then Autism awareness and until a better term comes around I will continue to describe April as Autism Acceptance Month.

Autism acceptance is classic Orwellian Doublespeak.

It’s problematic behaviours that get autistic people into trouble, not the autism label itself.

Nobody cares what something is called people are only bothered about how it may impact them.

For example schizophrenia has a stigma of fear around unprovoked violence committed by those who are psychotic, there are a number of tragedies that back that up. People are scared of “crazy people”

With autism it’s usually other things that negatively impact others maybe not respecting social norms, personal boundaries, annoying disruptive behaviour.

So it’s the behaviour itself people are being asked to accept, except we don’t go round with autistic tattooed on our heads so the public don’t know if they are dealing with someone deliberately being rude or with a brain condition.

Autism is not accepted anyway by the gov around the world they dedicate funds each year to research and prevent it.

All around the world gov research autism in an effort to prevent, treat or limit its effects in some way, irrespective of what hypocritical rubbish they put on their research websites about neurodiversity in some of these countries.

It’s all hypocrisy and BS and everyone laps it up every year without thinking logically.

It’s all one big lie

I think the term in real life is as much about autistics accepting their own autism as much if not more of getting others to accept us.

As for others the hope is that they will accept us as a whole person with Autism included. Not all that different from how people accept a family member as a person despite parts of them that grate them.

I was born around the 1960s, I did NOT know about AS(it was IGNORED until the 1980s, as it was discovered in Germany in the 1940s). AS people may have noise sensitivities, light sensitivities, and other sense sensitivities. I had the first two, and kind of in touch(and STILL do to a degree). May be different emotionally. I was. May have eccentricities, like obsessed with unusual interests, not look into peoples eyes as they want, etc ... I DID have those also! I was unusual enough for a teacher to claim I had ADHD and I was checked out. I could BARELY stand the fluorescent lighting, and COULDN'T stand it when it started to go bad. And don't get me started about fire alarms! I HATE THEM! I wasn't very social.

But I didn't really show stimming in the autistic ways, and certainly wasn't classically autistic.

So why did I say that? It gives you an idea of how odd I was, and am. I complained about things, and NOBODY CARED!! !! I think the ONLY time they care is with OBVIOUSLY disabled, or classically diagnosed, autistics.

Wouldn't say that "awareness" has done much. People are only aware that autism exists, while the average opinion on it is incredibly uninformed and narrow.

What about making it Embrace Autism month in the spirit of the meme below?

AAC app I want to get has sale on for this month for autism but I don't have device yet so can't get waah x.x oh well

I think that all these special days and months are a bunch of phony baloney bullsh!t.

If the number of autistic people that get fired illegally or discriminated against at work goes down enough, then maybe I will believe in it.

It just seems like something a company can do to look more welcoming without doing practically anything at all.

Boss: Here wear this special shirt today.

Me: why?

Boss: Because everyone else is doing it and it's for a good cause.

Me: No thanks, that shirt is not considered uniform under British Columbia employment law. I am not obligated to wear it.

Boss: Walks away confused and angry.

Yes, I suspect it's an example of what's called performative activism - companies paying lip service to politically-correct ideas without doing any real legwork to change anything, because they rather depend on inequality to make their profit.